Comments on a Recent Visit to Boston
Slightly off topic today.
It's fair to say I'm not a great traveler. Waiting for planes, dealing with the hassles of...
2008-08-26
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Blog Posts
Kindle - On Hold
Just as I was debating whether to take advantage of Amazon's $100 savings offer on the Kindle (with a new...
2008-08-25
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Tool Review: Quicken
I've used Quicken for a long time now and it's the center of how I manage finances at home. There...
2008-08-25
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Assessing DB Changes
One of the things I teach in our admin course is that it's not enough to just be the gatekeeper/central...
2008-08-24
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Deleting Duplicates without a unique key
The following was sent to me by my friend and colleague Dave Miller:
Dave's Email:
Wanted to pass along something I hadn't...
2008-08-21
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Kindle - On the clock
In a week and a half, I start on the first of my four trips this year for work, and...
2008-08-21
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Taking Care of Employees - Storms
As I write this a tropical storm is passing over Orlando and has turned out to be milder than expected...
2008-08-21
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[Off Topic] The Big Apple
I got my first opportunity to visit New York City last week. I was actually sitting in on a training...
2008-08-20
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SQLSaturday #8 in Orlando - Update (Aug 21)
Registration has been open for only a few weeks and we've got 110 registered so far, a nice start! We...
2008-08-20
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Troubleshooting High Connections & What's The Application Name?
I was visiting with a client recently when they asked me to come take a look at an incident in...
2008-08-20
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Blogs
How to Connect to SQL Server When Nothing Else Works – DAC
By gbargsley
It's 2 AM. Your phone is going off. Users can't connect to the application,...
Get a Range of Sequence Values: #SQLNewBlogger
By Steve Jones
I discovered a procedure recently that I wasn’t aware of: sp_sequence_get_range. This post looks...
The Agent Era: When “How do I…?” Replaces “Where do I click?”
By Arun Sirpal
After a year away getting to grips with AI and its application across the...
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Question of the Day
Creating a JSON Document II
I want to create a JSON document that contains data from this table:
TeamID TeamNameCity YearEstablished 1 Cowboys Dallas 1960 2 Eagles Philadelphia 1933 3 Packers Green Bay 1919 4 Chiefs Kansas City 1960If I run this code, what document(s) is/are returned?
SELECT json_objectagg( n.city : n.TeamName) FROM dbo.NFLTeams n;See possible answers